For the second year in a row, the Monroe County Fair has surpassed the attendance from the previous year and set a record in the process.

It was close, though. A total of 28,069 people came to the fair Saturday, the final day of the seven-day fair, boosting the total turnout for the week to an all-time high.

When the fair ended, a total of 192,357 people had visited the fairgrounds, snapping the previous record of 192,161 in 2013 by 196 people.

Saturday’s visitor count narrowly beat the 27,759 who stopped on the last day of the 2013 fair.

After running behind last year’s pace the whole week due to wet weather, the fair finally caught up with big turnouts Thursday and Friday and then got a better-than-average turnout Saturday to eclipse the mark.

More than 31,000 people poured through the gates on both Thursday and Friday of the fair. Pleasant and cool conditions on each of the last three nights of the fair also helped lure folks to the grounds.

The fair was plagued with threatening storms nearly every day, noted Stan Diroff, head of the entertainment committee and chairman of the kickoff parade.

“We were fortunate that some of the rain came early in the day,” Mr. Diroff said Sunday.

On two days when it poured — Sunday and Tuesday — the fair already had sold most of its tickets for the grandstand shows that night. So the storms didn’t keep them away, he said.

“I think some people came to the fair more than once,” he added.

Warren Siebarth, in his 16th year as fair manager, said the rain was a factor early in the week, but didn’t keep people away.

“It didn’t hurt that much,” Mr. Siebarth said Sunday. “Overall, we were quite fortunate with the weather. We got a lot of good comments about the fair and how clean it was. I was pretty happy with how things fell together.”

As happens most years, Children’s Day and Demolition Derby Day (Tuesday) draws the biggest singleday attendance of fair week, with 34,817 people filing through this year. Mr. Diroff estimated about 11,000 people saw the two derby contests. The next largest single-day turnouts were Thursday and Friday.

An estimated 3,000 people watched the Combine Demolition Derby in the grandstand Saturday, while about 500 youths attended the 4-H Celeration Dance in the livestock show arena and another 425 people listened to the Josh Wilson and Jen Muir Christian music concert in the Glenn F. Stock Arena.

The Richard Barker hypnotist show drew a number of overflow crowds at the northwest corner of the grounds and young people wanting to be hypnotized lined up almost a half hour before each of the final two shows Saturday. The show will return next year, Mr. Siebarth said.

As for other entertainment for 2015, the fair board will begin its search this fall for another country music concert for the first night of the 2015 fair. Mr. Diroff said the fair hopes to sign another “up-and-coming” star like Justin Moore and Hunter Hayes, who have performed at the past two fairs.

“It’s getting tougher with the Faster Horses” two-day concert held the week before the fair at Michigan International Speedway,” he said. “The groups look at their routing and the capacity of your grandstands.”

The fair also will explore having a racing pigs show again daily at the fairgrounds, Mr. Siebarth said. The pigs last appeared in Monroe 15 to 18 years ago.

“We’re looking at getting them back if they’re available,” the manager said. “There are several companies that run them.”

The fair has come a long way in its 67 years, especially in drawing patrons to the spacious grounds west of Monroe. Prior to 2011, the most people that ever went to the fair was 165,639 people in 1992. Since 2011, the fair has drawn at least 170,000 people and the past two years it has gotten a minimum of 192,000 people each year. The first sevenday fair held in 1998 drew 160,097 people.

Rollo Juckette, in his second year as board president, had a busy final day serving as one of the auctioneers for the 4-H Small Animal Sale and also announcing the Combine Derby. He said the board was thrilled to set another record.

“I want to personally thank everyone who attended the fair because without them, we couldn’t have a fair,” Mr. Juckette said. He added the fair gets great support from the community and “I hope they don’t quit coming.”